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cook — workflow loops for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Workflow loops for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. cook "Implement dark mode" review cook "Implement dark mode" x3 cook "Implement dark mode" v3 "least code" cook "Auth with JWT" vs "Auth with sessions" pick "best security" cook "Work on next task in plan.md" review \ ralph 5 "DONE if all tasks complete, else NEXT" cook "Implement dark mode" review v3 "cleanest result" Two ways to get it: npm install -g @let-it-cook/cli Add the /cook skill to Claude Code: mkdir -p .claude/skills &&…
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ENIAC, the General-Purpose Digital Computer, Is 80

ENIAC, the General-Purpose Digital Computer, Is 80

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world.On 15 February 1946, ENIAC—developed in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia—was publicly demonstrated for the first time. Although primitive by today’s standards, ENIAC’s purely electronic design and programmability were breakthroughs in computing at the time. ENIAC made high-speed, general-purpose computing practicable and laid the foundation for today’s machines.On the eve of its unveiling, the U.S. Department…
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Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Something that is not in the 1M+ people studying for interviews and throwing pieces of paper (CVs, cover letters, degrees) at the job application:A verifiable track record beyond the CV, that is extremely hard to fake with valuable experience that you did not know you needed.As I said before:1. Open source contributions to high-profile / major repositories (with code-review in the open with core maintainers). No hello world / demo projects.2. Production-grade shipped projects / side-projects with paying customers or high-profile companies using it…
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Conway’s Game of Life, in real life

Conway’s Game of Life, in real life

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A while back, I posted the following on social media:If you’re unfamiliar, Conway’s Game of Life takes place on a two-dimensional grid of square cells, each cell either alive (1) or dead (0). In each iteration, all live cells that have fewer than two neighbors die of “starvation”, while the ones with four or more die of “overpopulation”. Meanwhile, any dead cell that has exactly three neighbors comes alive — I guess that’s ménage à trois or digital necromancy. Really, you shouldn’t have asked.Anyway —…
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What 81,000 people want from AI \ Anthropic

What 81,000 people want from AI \ Anthropic

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Public conversation about AI often centers on abstract projections of its risks and benefits. What's largely missing is a vision for what “AI going well” means, grounded in the concrete aspirations of people around the world who already use AI and have begun developing a sense of what it might do for them.So we asked our users about their hopes and concerns with AI, as well as how their perspectives connect to their actual experiences with the technology. Over one week in December, we invited…
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Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149

Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Mozilla announced that Firefox version 149 will introduce a free browser-integrated VPN tier starting March 24, 2026. The feature is positioned as a safer alternative to the “free VPN” services that often come with hidden tradeoffs, with Mozilla stressing that its implementation is rooted in the same privacy principles that define Firefox. According to the announcement, the built-in VPN will route browser traffic through a proxy, hiding a user’s IP address and location during browsing sessions without requiring a separate download or extension. Mozilla said…
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A sufficiently detailed spec is code

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This post is essentially this comic strip expanded into a full-length post: For a long time I didn't need a post like the one I'm about to write. If someone brought up the idea of generating code from specifications I'd share the above image with them and that would usually do the trick. However, agentic coding advocates claim to have found a way to defy gravity and generate code purely from specification documents. Moreover, they've also muddied the waters enough that I believe the above…
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creationix/rx: RX encoder, decoder, and CLI data tool · GitHub

creationix/rx: RX encoder, decoder, and CLI data tool · GitHub

✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: REXC encoder, decoder, and data tool. Drop-in replacements for JSON.stringify and JSON.parse that produce smaller output, skip deserialization on read, and create near-zero heap allocations. JSON forces a tradeoff: parse everything up front (slow, memory-heavy) or don't cache at all. REXC eliminates the tradeoff: 18x smaller — binary-encoded numbers, de-duplicated strings, shared schemas, prefix-compressed paths. 23,000x faster single-key lookup — O(log n) binary search on sorted indexes, directly on the encoded bytes. No parse step. Near-zero heap pressure — the parsed result is a Proxy…
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iliazintchenko/agent-sat: Agent learns to become the worlds top expert on SAT · GitHub

iliazintchenko/agent-sat: Agent learns to become the worlds top expert on SAT · GitHub

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: _ _ ____ _ _____ / \ __ _ ___ _ __ | |_/ ___| / \|_ _| / _ \ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| __\___ \ / _ \ | | / ___ \ (_| | __/ | | | |_ ___) / ___ \| | /_/ \_\__, |\___|_| |_|\__|____/_/ \_\_| |___/ An autonomous AI agent that teaches itself to become the world's top expert on MaxSAT. Given 229 weighted MaxSAT instances from the 2024 MaxSAT Evaluation (main anytime weighted track),…
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Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents

Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes. From 2010 to 2019, rents in Austin increased nearly 93%—more than in any other major American city. And home sale prices increased 82%, more than in any other metro area in Texas. But starting in 2015, Austin instituted an array of policy reforms aimed at encouraging the development of new…
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